All Level, No Experience (Worm/Pathfinder Amnesia Quest)

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Maximum time span within the Time Stop. Perfect. Even a glance at it in this frozen moment is enough to tell you that it doesn't fall within any of your current bases of knowledge. Not the most useful, but it is helpful enough to confirm what it isn't. For instance, you can say with confidence that it isn't any sort of dragon, construct (nor robot), magical beast, or outsider. What does that leave? Humanoid is unlikely, though monstrous humanoid for this specific Endbringer is possible, if also perhaps unlikely. You'd be exceptionally surprised if any of the endbringers were oozes, so you set that notion aside for now, alongside the notion of them being animals. While vermin did seem an apt description, they likely weren't actually such.

What did that leave? Fey, Undead, Aberration, Plant. Hm, you'd have to figure it out another time. For now, on to work.

Sirocco from the staff directly over its current location, seven-league step closer, Quicken a Wall of Force from your own slots just barely above that, press the left button on the armband, "See-through twenty-by-twenty foot Wall of Force placed two inches above Simurgh's head, will last until 9:33:42 AM. Burning hot air effect centered one inch above Simurgh's head, extreme heat danger, can kill an average human approximately twice per second of exposure on average, will fatigue anything harmed by it, exhaustion on further exposure, will last until 9:33:42 AM. Both dismissable on command. Capable of walling further areas if needed, currently aiming to box in the Simurgh, over."

Next, Wall of Force from the staff, blocking off another 20 foot square, just behind the Simurgh, quickened Mage's Lucubration to regain the earlier cast Wall of Force, move around the Simurgh, armband in the new wall.

Next, Quickened Mythic Dimensional Lock, centered once again an inch above the Simurgh's head, Wall of Force to the Simurgh's right, report to armband, "Right side of Simurgh walled. All extradimensional travel not originating from Iluontar blocked within a 40 ft. radius centered one-inch above the Simurgh's head. Effect is stationary relative to the planet, will not move with Simurgh, will last thirty-six days unless dismissed early. Can attempt to target Simurgh with a single target variation if required, will only last thirty-six minutes per application- could potentially miss, will use up daily limited resource, over."

You pause for a split moment after lifting your finger, and send a second message based on one of the cultural media points Dragon had ended up teaching you, "Low-Priority message. If anyone would like to Thunderdome with the Simurgh, in a space too small for it to meaningfully evade, I should be capable of arranging that, over."

Next, Quickened Wall of Force and another from the staff, getting the left side and below, fly closer.

Final moments of the Time Stop, another quickened Wall of Force from your own slots, land directly on top of the box, ensure your Lord's Banner of Victory- depicting a glimmering golden sun front and center, over a gorgeous mountain, all in front of a background of sapphire blue- is quite clearly visible, swig of nectar, armband, "Simurgh fully boxed in, awaiting further coordination."

Time Stop ends. The Sirocco begins affecting the Simurgh, who manages to avoid the brunt of it, but not all of it, you can tell it's having the fatiguing effect you were aiming for.

The other capes begin a charge, a second in and the charge almost stutters as you can hear your messages being repeated over the first seconds. At the same time, the Simurgh almost seems to visibly start, no emotions or the like visible, but certainly a slight and sudden jerk, before it seems to experimentally slam against a wall, and when that gleams absolutely no results, start slamming against all of the walls in its new box, with quite the effort. Oh, and it appears a solid few nearby buildings have been wrenched up from the ground around you, although, not all that quickly. Oh, it's absolutely an impressive display in terms of weight, and it appears for now the capes are being split up by the Triumvirate to surround and in some cases aim for evacua-

From your armband comes Alexandria's voice mixed with the sound of her physically body blocking one of the thrown buildings, and you can see Eidolon handling another, with Legend throwing enough lasers to handle another two, "Hard Override. Iluontar, how long can you keep her boxed, and what's your status on her scream?"

You manage to throw up a Quickened Prismatic Sphere around yourself, just in the nick of time as the last two buildings are simply annihilated by the red layer of the sphere, and also amusingly enough, the sphere is partially occluded by the force walls, but the lower portion still manifests within the walls, both damaging the Simurgh a fair amount visibly, and also making it somewhat comically further boxed in to avoid hitting it again. Ah, although you do deliberately throw your own Dispel Magic at the violet layer, so as not to risk accidentally sending it to who-knows-where.

You press the left button and respond, "From what I can tell, it doesn't seem to be able to break it from the inside with its flailing, so as long as it isn't broken from the outside by something akin to one of those buildings, well, indefinitely. The walls last for around three and a half minutes, and it only take me just over half of a minute to replace them with an infinitely sustainable loop. As for the scream, I don't hear one. Whatsoever. Honestly-"

You were about to say you weren't sure why, but with that thought, something of a pseudo-memory, of your own capabilities, came to mind, along with that incident way back when, when you were at the mall and, with hindsight, managed to also not even notice young Ms. Dallon's emotion aura, despite the fact you ought to have been right in the range. Quite simply, you were not affected, because you were above such things, beyond the petty curses and enchantments of those not within your realm.

You say, "Pardon that, I was about to say I wasn't certain why, but no, I've remembered now, I am simply immune to such things from most beings. It appears I am also unaffected by the Simurgh's scream. Theoretically, if it were to keep itself absolutely plastered against a few of the walls, it could exceptionally slowly force me to make more outside of its current box, but it would only move at the pace of about a fraction of a millimeter every three minutes. So, effectively indefinite. Especially since the largest size I can manage for the walls is sixty by sixty foot each."

You can hear the efforts if not see them, through the sphere, which means you can also hear a few more buildings being thrown, this time only one at you, and a few others towards the walls the Simurgh can access, though those are also intercepted.

You hear Alexandria shouting on the other end, giving orders to others, putting Legend and a number of other blasters on preventing the buildings from hitting the walls. After a moment of that, her voice also crackles through the armband, "Try to hit the Simurgh with the individual extramensional block, then lower the area one. Report back when done."

Time Stop. Maximum time again, quite lucky.

First, Quickened Mage's Lucubration from the staff to regain the Dispel Magic, then Memory of Function to restore the staff's charges.

Then, Greater Invisibility on yourself, Mage's Lucubration to gain it right back. Dismiss both the Sirocco and Prismatic Sphere.

Then, Lucubration to regain your earlier Haste, Greater Teleport into the box.

Then- well, you've gone through all of the buffing effects you know already, don't need to worry about refreshing them for some time, and you still have a decent amount of time in the Time Stop. Oh, yes, there was something that slipped your mind, actually, in the waiting!

You quickly take out your phone in one of your two free hands, manually typing into the search bar on your end, which thankfully matches your own timeframe even if the internet as a whole does not, the full url to go check on the location of that dead drop payment for the Undersiders- hopefully they're not too peeved at the delay, though you'd say you had a fair enough excuse.

Then, you take the last moments to ready yourself to act as soon as the Time Stop drops. Which, as soon as it does, you cast Blood Money into Limited Wish, throwing a Dimensional Anchor at the Simurgh, which even with one of your admittedly poorer aims, it still lands right on it, and you move yourself around the box silently, scrambling your position and hiding using the shadows the Simurgh's own wings cast on itself.

Even with that, the Simurgh ends up quite close, only wasting four strikes of the wings before it manages to find your location, and almost hits you, but gets a mirror image, before completely whiffing another six hits- and that sixth one actually looked like it would've been a particularly effective- one. Right, that one, eleventh hit in total, actually did land. Actually, it was fairly, underwhelming, really. About what you'd expect from a runty hill giant, or a mediocre barbarian.

Regardless, the next two hits also whiffed, although out of all of those, six of those whiffed hits were mirror images taking the blows. Finally, however, you were able to teleport back out, to the top of the box, already halfway recovered from the hit. With your mythic Haste still up, it gives you just enough speed to, after dismissing the invisibility (also to ensure the Lord's Banner of Victory was visible to your allies), quickly navigate to the Number Man page and text Lisa the location of the Undersider's payment for both months, and a brief, "Pardon the delay, Endbringer preparations distracted me."

Ignoring the triple dots signifying a text being written back and promptly putting your phone away, as well as ignoring the one incredulous, "Is he fucking texting right now?!" from a distant cape who's voice you didn't recognize, and what came across as downright awe from what you believed from the costume was Shadow Stalker from Brockton who said, "Holy shit that's cool. Emms is never going to believe me."

Actually, hold on, you know a thing or two about disguises, that is definitely the same girl as from that Winslow place when you did the flyover with Spice. What in the hells were the odds of that?

Regardless, you put it out of your mind as you press the armband button and say, "Done, the Simurgh is now incapable of extradimensional travel until 10:06:18 AM. Be advised I can only do this four more times."

You barely have even a second before you hear a new voice through the armbands. Based on what you can tell, it's Eidolon, who speaks only eight words, with an odd sort of eagerness and nostalgia, the way one recites a beloved quote.

"Two men enter, one man leaves. Thunderdome me."

Thunderdome him? (Teleport him into the box with the Simurgh?)

[ ] Thunderdome!
[ ] No.
[ ] You want in too, bring yourself in with him.
-[ ] Focus on buffing the two of you and debuffing the Simurgh.
-[ ] Focus on just damaging the Simurgh as much as possible.

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AN: Firstly, I wasn't actually sure how well Area Control was going to go, even as the QM. Then I considered things, the fact that you've also got a solid chunk of of cape backup, and ended up again slipping into that mindset of thinking like the character, like Iluontar, where, yeah, that guy absolutely would figure that you can't really get much more area control than literally sticking them in a box they can't leave. And of course, this would end up with the result that he'd Dimensional Lock them, because even with only his own knowledge, it's legitimately what makes sense.

Following that, by everything Ziz got unholy amounts of good rolls against total concealment. 14 Attacks full attack, only 4 at various 'squares' before finding where you where, then, out of the remaining ten, passing the 50% concealment Seven Times. 1 in 128 kind of luck, and one of those times managed to even hit the correct one, rather than a mirror image.

That path ability reveal of Pure Destiny has been hinted at since I believe 1.3 or so, just waiting for someone to realize "Hey, we were literally directly below Glory Girl and didn't even notice an aura, what's up with that?".

Eidolon would've been like, about 16 or 17 or so when Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome came out, so I've decided that yep, that's a thing now.

Also, the image of you triumphantly standing over a boxed Ziz, your own flag flying proudly from an immaculate staff (one whose sight literally empowers them), as you wear layers of incredulously fine robes with a laurel wreath atop your head, that is both some prime emperor shit, and it's not even living rent-free in their heads, it had become the new landlord, to extend the metaphor.

Lastly, with the damage you've done, you've actually managed to get a little ways to the core. Like an entire 0.006% (rounded up) of the way there .

Hope y'all've enjoyed!